*grumble* Alias finished … *grumble* Bones cliffhanger … *grumble* Boston Legal cliffhanger … *grumble* Charmed finished … *grumble* Criminal Minds cliffhanger … *grumble* Lost cliffhanger …
Still have some Commander In Chief episodes (which apparently starts back up next week) we haven’t watched, and Doctor Who isn’t over yet… I think, and of course we [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2006’
Bah, humbug
Need for speed
It must be that time of the year already again, here’s yet another typing speed test:
The exercise was
A chicken dinner that you consumed en route from Columbus to West Palm Beach was probably not prepared at some monstrous kitchen at the airline’s hub in, say, Detroit..The idea is to keep the kitchens as local as [...]
Amazingly…
…good, or bad. See for yourself.
The Finnish (YouTube.com) submission to last weekend’s Eurovision Contest that walked away with the prize give you an indication why it is both considered horrifying and greatly amusing, to a lot of people. I’m almost sorry I couldn’t see it this time.
Habla Ingles?
This just caught my eye in the BBC News feed:
The US Senate has voted in favour of making English the national language. <…> But the Senate also approved a milder Democrat amendment describing English as the “common and unifying language”. Neither of the bills would bar the use of Spanish or other [...]
Scripting fun
My music (mp3, ogg) collection is in desperate need of cleaning up. In the past several years I’ve moved it, copied it, merged it, and the end result is that I have a ton of duplicate files filling up my harddisk and it’s nearly impossible to track them all down manually. Add [...]
Acronyms
Kalle wrote in a comment:
Btw, funny that your thing claims CLI is “Common Language Interpreter”. It’s also Command Line Interface, and that’s an official acronym IIRC.
Unfortunately there’s no such thing as an official acronym. For instance here’s a few picked from online dictionaries:
Command Line Interface
Call-Level Interface (database lingo)
Class Library
Clear Interrupt (assembly)
Common Language Interpreter
And then [...]
Ping!
I’m trying out Pastor, an OS X application for keeping track of passwords (and other things, but I’m not, yet) for various accounts I have online. So far, so good.
Yesterday I ran into a bug(let) and was pleasantly surprised by the turn-around time of my emailed bug-report. Here’s the time-line:
8:58 AM
My email sent.
9:04 [...]
In debt
Reading an article in The Guardian:
On an individual and a government level America is spending way beyond its means. The average American household now owes $8,000 in debt on credit cards alone. Meanwhile the government equivalent of credit card spending has seen the deficit hit a record $423bn. With the war in Iraq showing no [...]
Time is on my side
Large parts of the internet are kept in sync with eachother using NTP which stands for Network Time Protocol. Ideally you will point to one or two servers that are (in network terms) nearby and those will either rely on other servers, and so on, until you end up with one that actually keeps [...]